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GRANTPT(3) Linux Programmer's Manual GRANTPT(3)
NAME
grantpt - grant access to the slave pseudoterminal
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
int grantpt(int fd);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
grantpt():
Since glibc 2.24:
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
Glibc 2.23 and earlier:
_XOPEN_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
The grantpt() function changes the mode and owner of the slave pseudoterminal device corresponding to the master pseudoterminal referred to by the file descrip‐
tor fd. The user ID of the slave is set to the real UID of the calling process. The group ID is set to an unspecified value (e.g., tty). The mode of the slave
is set to 0620 (crw--w----).
The behavior of grantpt() is unspecified if a signal handler is installed to catch SIGCHLD signals.
RETURN VALUE
When successful, grantpt() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.
ERRORS
EACCES The corresponding slave pseudoterminal could not be accessed.
EBADF The fd argument is not a valid open file descriptor.
EINVAL The fd argument is valid but not associated with a master pseudoterminal.
VERSIONS
grantpt() is provided in glibc since version 2.1.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
│Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
│grantpt() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
NOTES
This is part of the UNIX 98 pseudoterminal support, see pts(4).
Many systems implement this function via a set-user-ID helper binary called "pt_chown". On Linux systems with a devpts filesystem (present since Linux 2.2), the
kernel normally sets the correct ownership and permissions for the pseudoterminal slave when the master is opened (posix_openpt(3)), so that nothing must be done
by grantpt(). Thus, no such helper binary is required (and indeed it is configured to be absent during the glibc build that is typical on many systems).
SEE ALSO
open(2), posix_openpt(3), ptsname(3), unlockpt(3), pts(4), pty(7)
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